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[nooby]

New report from latest Quirky that is kind of experimental if I get Barry. Okay all of them with that name are such.

Anyway. To my surprise but maybe Seaside warned about it and me poor reader of any text.

If it already have a .mozilla and Qrky has SeaMonkey then SFS-Exec Dir refuse to start Firefox. It says that it has loaded it but nothing show up.

And then when I use the unloader then that one says it is loaded.


How does one get FF going if the Seamonkey is the default browser.

Opera loaded as usual.

I tested to have symlink to another .mozilla outside pupsave but that did not get FF going either.

kind of odd. But using right click did not shut it down.

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[nooby]

Thanks.

Ah so that is what you say. Clever. Now I get what you say. Hehe I am dense
One need to test it in another way. What we did should get saved because mnt/home are outside teh pupsave.

We have to do a test that only should go into pupsave.
Change of background on desktop?
Doing a PPM thing? installing some app and then when one reboot it should not be there?

[nooby]

Ooops sorry not described the important steps.

Well I renamed the current .mozilla to .mozillaold and then dragged the one I had on HDD to root and made an absolute symlink and when I tested to start firefox 3.6.sfs that one failed to show up so I unloaded it and tested with 4.07 and that one did not start up either so I unloaded it and deleted the symlink and renamed the old back to original name and restarted x and tested Seamoneky and that one failed to load too despite me ahd used it prior to the test.

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[nooby]

Sad news. I hope I did it right. It remember things it should not?

1. I tested to change the background picture. First I changed it from one to another and used your save button and that saved it so it was there after reboot as it should be and

2. then I changed it again but rebooted without using your save button. It still remembered the new one instead of forgetting like it should.

So something the Lupu or Woof do make it remember even after your changes of the scripts.
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Re failing to get FF going I made a mistake, it seems that I have mixed up FF3.6.16 and 4.0 and that seems not to work well. It did remember my personal startpage and my bookmarks but not my passwords. No big deal.

So that may explain ithe .mozilla thing. I use sfs-exec.dir in this one too and it also shut down to prompt if one did what I described but survive and work well if one go the way you described. One can only put a symlink on the dektop with the sfs files and click on them

I most likely go to bed now

[Jasper]

Hi again seaside,

So that I may save at any time (without an enforced poweroff) I have added a # sign at the start of the last line of your "Save-pup" file as shown:

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[Jasper]

Hi seaside,

I save to my hard drive (not a usb flash drive in case that is what your new code is meant for) and, after testing, I'm 99 % confident (though worried by your expert comment) that the simple "#" addition works.

My regards

[seaside]

Jasper,

Don't be concerned about the name because it was created to be used for flash drives, but basically it initiates the "save" procedure. Please do try it.

Unfortunately, just enabling the "snapmergepuppy" does not actually run it, so nothing will happen if you "#exec "wmpoweroff .

Cheers,
s

[nooby]

one thing that worries me is that if one have a pupsavefile and then install SFS-Exec and SFS-Exec-Pupsave and then forget to use the SFS-Exec-Unloader on FF then it seems the Ext3 pupsave file get corrupt but usually pfix=fsck does repair it but it has happen that it did not on first try and I had to reboot again and that time it fixed it and everything look normal again .


So I should do a backup of the savefile and place it in a safe spot

Apart from that I really love what you gave us. No craving or to put demands on you but if you suddenly feel for it it would be cool to have what you describe first that it doesn't save changes even if one reboot normally? That would be a cool thing indeed.

Suppose one install something that does not work. What a relief to just reboot the normal way and all is as it should be the faulty thing not there.

[Jasper]

Hi seaside,

Your code works, but

I get a yellow box with a message:
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"Request to save the current session is queued. Please
wait and a message will pop up when the saving occurs."
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A couple of times I have waited 10 minutes and more with no change to the message. However, if I move my cursor over the message it disappears immediately.

My regards

Perhaps (on Lupu) you might try the # sign (because I use the power-off button on my Tower - which I have to because the reboot which is not supposed to save - would otherwise save whatever code was used in the save file).